newspaperland

English

Etymology

newspaper +‎ -land

Noun

newspaperland (uncountable)

1. The subculture of people who write and publish newspapers.
   • 1914, William S. Murphy, Modern drapery and allied trades, page 140:

     In most ordinary trades goods are bought and sold by weight or measure or quantity, and a customer knows just how much he will get for his pound sterling; but in the glorious realm of newspaperland, where every editor is qualified to tell the Prime Minister what to do in every emergency, nothing so vulgar as accurate quantum for cash paid is allowed.

   • 1954, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):

     It is obvious that commercial television endangers the advertising revenue of the Press. As I have indicated, it will not be a healthy happening for newspaperland.

   • 2018, David Kipen, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018:

     The Beverly-Wilshire is famous in Los Angeles newspaperland for the jealous care they show about protecting their guests from the Press, and you cannot get past unless the person to be interviewed is absolutely willing.

2. The world as depicted in the newspaper or which reads the newspaper.
   • 1949, James Bone, London echoing, page 11:

     The author is, of course, well aware that much is untouched in this book, even in the provinces of newspaperland, of London's foreign visitors and of its old shops, hotels and taverns, subjects to which he had given some particular study.

   • 1970, Car Life - Volume 17, page 61:

     Out there in TV/magazine/newspaperland, the customers are barraged by 9000 ad messages a day.

   • 2010, Joey Comeau, One Bloody Thing After Another:

     It's the cover story and they are aghast, downtown in newspaperland. .